βάναυσον (banauson)

βάναυσον is an Ancient Greek form of βάναυσος, meaning “mechanical; vulgar; artisan”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 38.3: … έπλησαν, τὰς δὲ πύλας εἶχον ἀνεῳγμένας καὶ τοὺς παῖδας ἐν τοῖς διδασκαλείοις μανθάνοντας, τοῦ δὲ δήμου τὸ μὲν βάναυσον ἐπὶ τῶν ἐργαστηρίων ἑωρᾶτο περὶ τάς τέχνας, τὸ δʼ ἀστεῖον ἐπὶ τῆς ἀγορᾶς ἐν ἱματίοις οἱ δʼ ἄρχοντες περιῄεσαν …

Plato, Laws 1.644: … οσαγορεύειν, τὴν δὲ εἰς χρήματα τείνουσαν ἤ τινα πρὸς ἰσχύν, ἢ καὶ πρὸς ἄλλην τινὰ σοφίαν ἄνευ νοῦ καὶ δίκης, βάναυσόν τʼ εἶναι καὶ ἀνελεύθερον καὶ οὐκ ἀξίαν τὸ παράπαν παιδείαν καλεῖσθαι. ἡμεῖς δὴ μηδὲν ὀνόματι διαφερώμεθʼ αὑτο …

All forms of βάναυσος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.